I think this is a bit of an extension effort of yours, depending on what level of extension we're looking at, but could you tell me a little bit about that?

That was another project that we've also been talking about across the soils department, as well as a larger national project where we're collecting all this soil data, but how do we get it back to the farmers, the data owners, the people who this is actually useful for? We collect a lot of data for research, and we wanna make sure that it's accessible to actually make those on-farm decisions.

For our provincial soil data hub, what we're doing is I'm leading a project that any soil samples that are coming through the soil science department at the University of Saskatchewan, we're putting them into this database where farmers will eventually be able to see any samples that were taken from their field, be able to see those results in real time.

So as they're coming off the analyzers, they'll get uploaded to this site where they'll have, like, a password and be able to access their data really readily, rather than waiting for grad students to send them the data back.

It often happens years after the project's finished, and I know I've been a culprit of that as well.

Just 'cause life gets busy and our job is, like, to train grad students so they can go off and explore their careers, that part has been often forgotten is what we've heard.

Trying to find a way that we can get data back to farmers, back to data owners faster.

And could you tell us a little bit about FFAR, what it meant to you, and as a grad student to now a new research person and faculty, what advice from your experience as a grad student would you provide current grad students?

I think this is a bit of an extension effort of yours, depending on what level of extension we're looking at, but could you tell me a little bit about that?

That was another project that we've also been talking about across the soils department, as well as a larger national project where we're collecting all this soil data, but how do we get it back to the farmers, the data owners, the people who this is actually useful for? We collect a lot of data for research, and we wanna make sure that it's accessible to actually make those on-farm decisions.

For our provincial Soil Data Hub, what we're doing is I'm leading a project that any soil samples that are coming through the soil science department at the University of Saskatchewan, we're putting them into this database where farmers will eventually be able to see any samples that were taken from their field, be able to see those results in real time.

So as they're coming off the analyzers, they'll get uploaded to this site where they'll have, like, a password and be able to access their data really readily, rather than waiting for grad students to send them the data back.

It often happens years after the project's finished, and I know I've been a culprit of that as well.

Just 'cause life gets busy and our job is, like, to train grad students so they can go off and explore their careers, that part has been often forgotten is what we've heard.

Trying to find a way that we can get data back to farmers, back to data owners faster.

And could you tell us a little bit about FFAR, what it meant to you, and as a grad student to now a new research person and faculty, what advice from your experience as a grad student would you provide current grad students?